1Appendix E. Consolidated Inventory of Personal Property in the Estate, c.1761 (Washington Papers)
D , ViHi : Custis Papers. The manuscript of the consolidated inventory, in John Mercer’s hand, is arranged in five columns: (1) the number of each entry, running from 1 to 399; (2) the item or items in each entry of this inventory, often followed by a number or numbers referring to other entries in the inventory; (3) a number corresponding to the number of an entry in the Combined County...
2Cash Accounts, 1761 (Washington Papers)
Cash For 1761 To Cash received of severals for Sundrys viz. Smiths work of Sundrys £ 7.15. 4 1/2 Bonds &ca Interest of Apl 18 P[hilip] W[hitehead] Claiborne 14. 0. 0 Do Wm Dandridge 22. 0. 0 Do Mrs [Joanna] McKenzie 10.16. 0 Do Colo. Ber[nard] Moore 210. 0. 0 Novr 27 Francis Foster
3Memorandum List of Quitrents, 1761 (Washington Papers)
A List of Lands for which I paid Quit-Rents in the Year 1761—to Tomison Elzey. In King George County viz. 1250 Acres 1 Year due Fairfax Mount Vernon 2126 bot of Darrel 500 Ditto of Clifton 1806 4432 Ditto 1 Ditto Frederick taken up 760 bot of Johnston 552 of McCraken 550 taken up
4[January 1761] (Adams Papers)
The Representatives in their Address to the Governor, have told him that “Great Britain is the leading and most respectable Power in the whole World.” —Let us examine this.—Is she the Leading Power, either in War or Negociation?—In War? She has no Army, not more than 50 or 60 thousand Men, whereas France has a standing Army, of 250, 000 men in Camp and in Garrison. And their officers are as...
5[January? 1761.] (Adams Papers)
I am an old Man, seventy odd, and as I had my Education, so I have spent my whole Life, a few months Weeks in a Year excepted, when I commonly took a Journey, in the Country. I was naturally inquisitive, and a little too talkative, in my Youth, which Qualities have perhaps increased with my Age, but as I remember, I used to swear at the vanity and Impertinence of old Nestor whose Speeches I...
Braintree, January? 1761. Printed: JA, Diary and Autobiography Diary and Autobiography of John Adams , ed. L. H. Butterfield and others, Cambridge, 1961; 4 vols. , 1:190–192 Unsigned, but the author introduces himself as “an old Man, seventy odd.” See entry for the earliest draft in this series, 29 May 1760 , above, and references there. Printed : ( JA, Diary and Autobiography Diary and...
7Draft of a New Year’s Address to His Nieces, January 1761 (Adams Papers)
Braintree, January? 1761. Printed: JA, Diary and Autobiography Diary and Autobiography of John Adams , ed. L. H. Butterfield and others, Cambridge, 1961; 4 vols. , 1:193–196 . The letter is of course pseudonymous; at this time JA had no nieces. Printed : ( JA, Diary and Autobiography Diary and Autobiography of John Adams , ed. L. H. Butterfield and others, Cambridge, 1961; 4 vols. , 1:193–196 ).
8From John Adams to Peter Chardon, January 1761 (Adams Papers)
Braintree, January? 1761. Printed: JA, Diary and Autobiography Diary and Autobiography of John Adams , ed. L. H. Butterfield and others, Cambridge, 1961; 4 vols. , 1:196–197 . On Chardon (d. 1766) , see JA ’s admiring characterization in same, p. 47 , and note at p. 48 . Printed : ( JA,
9To George Washington from Richard Washington, 1 January 1761 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Richard Washington, 1 Jan. 1761. On 14 July 1761 GW wrote to Washington : “I have had the pleasure of receiving your obliging favours of the 16th October and first of January following.”